Special features of the wall paintings in the churches of Uglich during the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries

Abstract

Churches and cathedrals built in Uglich (the Yaroslavl Region of todays Russia) during the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries received the status of architectural monuments rather late, so their wall paintings have largely been lost. The study provides a brief overview of the history of the town churches. The author proves that the wall painters used to work in strict accordance with the old canons, yet in a Western academic manner. Future prospects of the study of the eighteenth-nineteenth-century wall paintings in the churches of Uglich are considered.